Minor bug fixes and improvements to 0.4.1-1

James Laska jlaska at redhat.com
Tue Sep 21 20:59:26 UTC 2010


On Tue, 2010-09-21 at 15:44 -0400, Kamil Paral wrote:
> ----- "James Laska" <jlaska at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> > = conflicts test failures =
> > 
> > 1) Failing to find packages or mirrors
> > 
> > This appears to be a result of running the test in a different
> > environment.
> > When run previously, download.fedoraproject.org would result to an
> > internal Red
> > Hat mirror which was (for the most part) always updated and accurate. 
> > With our
> > tests now running in Fedora infrastructure, we are at the mercy of
> > MirrorManager to provide an appropriate mirror.  It seems that we
> > rarely get an
> > updated mirror.  I have 2 proposed solutions to this problem.
> > 
> 
> I have also noticed problems with MirrorManager, I get an outdated
> mirror quite frequently when testing. The question is - how is that
> possible? Isn't that a bug? Isn't a sole purpose of the MirrorManager
> to ensure I actually always get an up-to-date mirror? If that's the
> case, we should simply request a fix for MirrorManager. Does anyone
> know how it *should* work?
> 
> Anyway, for performance reasons, it would be nice to download from
> our fast internal mirror, sure.
> 
> (But I'm still puzzled about the MirrorManager giving outdated mirrors.)

Great questions Kamil.  We've temporarily resolved the problem by
ensuring we get a known-good mirror.  But your questions remain.  I'd
need to check-in with folks from the infrastructure team for
thoughts/guidance.

Thanks,
James




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